Microsoft has been given the go-ahead to
build a $1.1bn data center just outside the capital of Iowa,exam1pass Des Moines
– in southeast West Des Moines, to be exact – which when taken together with
its existing data center there will raise the company's investment in the area
to a hair below $2bn.

Redmond wrangled a fine passel of
incentives for the center: on Friday the Iowa Economic Development Authority
(IEDA) approved a $20.3m sales tax rebate on construction materials for the
project,exam1pass available until 2021, 70-483 pdf a sum that's in
addition to $18m in infrastructure improvements already promised by West Des
Moines.